March 7, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Hostopia (hostopia.com) announced on Thursday that its Hostopia email service now offers integrated support for mobile technology BlackBerry (blackberry.com) Internet Service from Research In Motion (rim.com).
BlackBerry smartphone users will now be able to use Hostopia email service to automatically receive messages from their Hostopia email account. Users can instantly configure and connect with their Hostopia email account by enterting their email credentials into their BlackBerry smartphone.
“This new relationship with RIM will allow us to offer the benefits of the BlackBerry Internet Service push email architecture to broadband service providers,” says Paul D. Engels, Hostopia’s chief marketing officer. “This will enable their end users to instantly activate high-performance, mobile email simply by entering their personal email credentials into their BlackBerry smartphone?The Hostopia client lets email users wirelessly update contact and other personal data between their desktop PC and a BlackBerry smartphone.”
Hostopia says it will market the service on a wholesale basis, selling to telecommunications companies, cable providers and other broadband ISPs that offer email to their end-user customers. Additionally, Hostopia customers using SyncSuite applications can synchronize their calendars, contacts and task information to automatically synchronize BlackBerry smartphone with Outlook and Webmail.
Last month, Hostopia reported its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2007.
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